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Tin Cans and Greyhounds: The Destroyers that Won Two World Wars

Clint Johnson
3.95/5 (129 ratings)
This action-packed narrative history of destroyer-class ships begins with destroyers' first incarnation as torpedo boats in 1898 through the last true combat service of the ships in the Vietnam War. Nicknamed "tin cans" or "greyhounds," destroyers were quick naval ships used to defend larger battleships—and they proved indispensable in America's military victories. In Tin Cans and Greyhounds, author Clint Johnson brings readers inside the quarter-inch hulls of destroyers to meet the men who manned the ships' five-inch guns and fought America's wars from inside a "tin can"—risking death by cannon shell, shrapnel, bomb, fire, drowning, exposure, and sharks.
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1621577678
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9781621577676
kindle Asin:
B07F6NQGH8

Tin Cans and Greyhounds: The Destroyers that Won Two World Wars

Clint Johnson
3.95/5 (129 ratings)
This action-packed narrative history of destroyer-class ships begins with destroyers' first incarnation as torpedo boats in 1898 through the last true combat service of the ships in the Vietnam War. Nicknamed "tin cans" or "greyhounds," destroyers were quick naval ships used to defend larger battleships—and they proved indispensable in America's military victories. In Tin Cans and Greyhounds, author Clint Johnson brings readers inside the quarter-inch hulls of destroyers to meet the men who manned the ships' five-inch guns and fought America's wars from inside a "tin can"—risking death by cannon shell, shrapnel, bomb, fire, drowning, exposure, and sharks.
Format:
Pages:
pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
Language:
ISBN10:
1621577678
ISBN13:
9781621577676
kindle Asin:
B07F6NQGH8